The installation kit contains the evaluation version of AXIGEN Mail Server and is available for download or on CD.
The AXIGEN installation kit available for download on http://www.axigen.com/mail-server/download/ contains the installation related files for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional operating systems.

The following section describes how to install the AXIGEN Mail Server on the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional operating systems.

 

Here are the AXIGEN installations steps:

1. Launch the AXIGEN installation wizard*

Double-click on the MSI installation file. The installation wizard will then be launched and guide you through the installation steps.

     2.  Configure AXIGEN

After the installation completes, the AXIGEN Configuration Wizard will start and help you automatically configure the AXIGEN Mail Server. Please refer to the Automated Configuration with the AXIGEN Configuration Wizard for Microsoft Windows section for complete information and screen-shots.

     3.  Start the AXIGEN Mail Server

Read the Starting/Stopping/Restarting the Server section for information on how to start AXIGEN on Microsoft Windows operating systems.


* Files/directories installed by the AXIGEN package

The files and directories installed by the AXIGEN package are divided in 2 locations, called "install directory" and "working directory". They will be further referred to as INSTALLDIR and WORKINGDIR. By default, both locations are set in the Program Files folder from the system disk partition (%ProgramFiles%), and the Axigen Mail Server subfolder.

The info in the table below is also available in the Readme .txt file included in the AXIGEN installation kit:

Directory/File	Description
INSTALLDIR\
INSTALLDIR\axigen.exe	This is the AXIGEN daemon.
INSTALLDIR\AxiWizard.exe	This is the AXIGEN Configuration Wizard.
INSTALLDIR\doc\
INSTALLDIR\doc\RELEASE-NOTES.txt	These are the product release notes for the current AXIGEN release.
INSTALLDIR\doc\README.txt	This is the Readme .txt file.
INSTALLDIR\doc\LICENSE.txt	Document containing the license for the AXIGEN Mail Server.
INSTALLDIR\doc\LICENSE-others.txt	This document contains various external library collections included in AXIGEN (OpenSSL, PCRE, ICU, GD, BSD, Yahoo! Domain-Keys).
INSTALLDIR\examples\	This is the directory with sample configuration files.
INSTALLDIR\examples\axigen.cfg	This is a sample configuration file.
INSTALLDIR\examples\smtpFilters.script	This is a sample SMTP script file.
WORKINGDIR\
WORKINGDIR\run\
WORKINGDIR\run\axigen.cfg	This is the main configuration file for the AXIGEN server.
WORKINGDIR\filters\	This directory contains various filtering script files (AFSL, Sieve, SMTP).
WORKINGDIR\webmail\	This is the default directory used for storing files pertaining to the AXIGEN WebMail module.
WORKINGDIR\webadmin\	This is the default directory used for storing files pertaining to the AXIGEN WebAdmin module.
WORKINGDIR\mobile_ua.cfg	This is the default mobile user agents detection configuration file.